I want you to help me write the greatest homoromantic Arthur Gies and Brian Altano fanfiction ever. They have a solid bromance going already, but what is fanfiction for if not to make two perfectly straight dudes totally gay for each other?

I need you all to tweet a line from this as of now unnamed and unwritten story. You need to fully encapsulate the tragic, unspoken love of these two in less than 140 characters.

Note that I said romantic, not erotic. Keep it PG (PG-13, maybe). I cannot stress this enough. Do not make me ill.

Make sure to put the special hashtag I made for their special love: #Arthian

You don’t need to tweet at me (gives you more room), but you need to put the hashtag in so I can find it.

Today we launched IGN's Pokemon Face-Off, or Poke-Duel, which is pretty much the coolest Pokemon thing the Internet has ever seen, after that fake live action trailer, and the banned episode of the anime where James gets inflatable boobs.

But where did we come up with this awesome idea? Well, like all my best stories, it started with me being drunk on an airplane.

Did you know if you flirt with the flight attendant before takeoff you get a bunch of these things for free? Only seems to work on the male flight attendants though...

I was flying back from New York, and "The Social Network" was the in-flight movie. If you remember, that guy from Zombieland created a website in one night that used pictures of college girls and let people vote on their hotness. He called it Facemash.

When I landed in San Francisco I went straight to the office, and busted into our conference meeting. The conversation went something like this:

"Dudes, what if we made a Facemash for Pokemon?!"

"What's Facemash?"

"It's that thing Zuckerberg made that let's you vote on girl hotness."

"Like Hot or Not?"

"You wanna do Hot or Not for Pokemon?"

"No. I mean yes, but not hotness."

Luckily for me, and this project, guides guru Sam Claiborn could decipher my drunken ramblings, and took charge of the project. That makes him... the guy who is Spider-Man now.

After that the story gets a little hazy. Jim McQuillan (Justin Timberlake?), one of our engineers, used Python, or Ruby on Rails, or voodoo magic or something and whipped up the Poke-Duel. He did it so fast that I hadn't even sobered up from my flight before we had a workable version.

Now what you see on the Pokemon Face-Off is not the final project. We're still improving it to speed up the interface, and we hope to add features like comments. So that's where you come in. What do you think? Are you having fun? What do you want included?

Hey kids! Excited for the Nintendo 3DS? Of course you are. It's going to be the greatest 3D gaming handheld of 2011!

Nintendo is doing a launch event in New York City, and I, along with my associate Rich George, will be in attendance. Here are the deets from Nintendo:

To celebrate the arrival of the system, Nintendo is holding a midnight launch event starting at 9 p.m. Eastern time on March 26 at the Best Buy store in Union Square in New York City. The event will feature hands-on Nintendo 3DS demos with food, music and giveaways (while supplies last), all leading up to a countdown to midnight, when the Nintendo 3DS system goes on sale. For those who can’t make it to New York, additional midnight launch events will be held at several Best Buy stores throughout the country. Fans can visit http://www.bestbuy.com/3DS for more information. Nintendo is also installing more than 6,000 kiosks at retailers across the country over the next couple of months to let people demo the new Nintendo 3DS system.

We're going to be hanging out, giving away FREE high fives, and generally being awesome. So we expect you all to show up.

Where: Best Buy, Union Square, NYC

When: Saturday, March 26 9pm EST-???

Why: 3DS, dummy!

Hit me up if you're going to make it. Tweet me (@JackOutsideBox), Facebook me, post here. Do it all. See you in New York.

Those of you who checked out the review for Pokemon Black/White likely noticed that numerous sections of the review had been edited out, replaced with black bars. What's up with that?

Here's the deal.

As part of the review process, we at IGN often receive copies of games early, and are allowed to post reviews before the game hits store shelves. Nintendo provided copies of Pokemon Black and White for me to review, and set an embargo for March 4, two days before the game was set to release.

As is normally the case with a game like this, there are rules for what we can and cannot show. However, in the case of Pokemon, there were a large number of restrictions. If I wanted to have a review as soon as possible I wouldn't be able to talk about any plot elements after the second gym, and couldn't talk about certain new game features, or talk about a large number of the new Pokemon.

This became a major issue for our video review. After just a few short hours, my entire party were Pokemon I was not allowed to show. As a result, we decided to delay the video review until Sunday, the day Pokemon Black/White comes out.

As for the written review, I didn't want to dance around aspects of the game. So I talked with my editors: Executive Editor of the Nintendo Channels Rich George, and Editor in Chief Hilary Goldstein. We decided that I would write my review as I normally would, and any info that was embargoed we would simply black out until the embargo lifted.

Honestly I thought that when we told Nintendo this they would work out a compromise. They called my bluff.

So I wrote my review. And it turned out that most of it was ok information. But there are parts in there – particularly my opinions on some of the new Pokemon, and about the game's plot progression – that we had to edit out. I hope the review is still readable, and if you're confused about things, just check back on Sunday, March 6 to read the completely uncensored review.